Wayfair reviews

I truly do not know where to start. This whole office is a complete joke. If you are a young kid starting out right out of school maybe this is an ok job. They start you at 30k and go into this whole thing about also getting commission but you truly never see that pay check. They have no solid priorities other than getting everyone completely wasted in the office and at corporate events. Management consists of most male 20 something year olds that sleep with their employees and send unsolicited text messages to. A few women have gone to HR with concerns and a few days later have been fired for some reason or another. A few women have been harassed by one specific man on more than one occasion but he still has a job and those women that got sexual harassed at work and work events have been let go.... Managers get completely black out drunk at work events and in the office and get praised day in and day out. We are supposed to then respect these people come Monday morning. Human Resources is a complete joke. You are not protected and instead fired when an issue comes up. They have just laid off 50+ employees but don't worry. The one that sexually harasses women still has a job. The senior managers also sleep around constantly. Their favorites got to keep their job too. Don't work here. Ever.

I think as a recent trend Wayfair actually offers a pretty good or at least market compensation package with stock grants vested over a time (which might be actually worth something given the company has filed with the SEC for IPO) for experienced folks in engineering, but not for their college hires. Nonetheless, I'd still dissuade experienced folks from joining. Why? Your career stagnation and personal frustration won't be worth it. First, Wayfair skimps on holidays standard to other companies; so mark off at least 5 days off from your PTO package because you won't have MLK Day, President's Day etc. Second, as other reviewers have said before, the technology stack at Wayfair is very outdated. Your day to day work if assigned to the backend inventory teams, will be maintaining a lot of verbose and spaghetti-code stored procedures in MS-SQL and editing simple .net web services. Your day to day work if assigned to Storefront, will be mostly fighting fire in a bloated PHP stack where most methods and libraries are written in procedural code, implementing marketing-driven tickets such as "adding a new copy-text" to this page or track some variable in A/B testing. Wayfair Engineering blog promotes itself as a place that uses cutting-edge technology such as Solr, machine-learning with Python, real-time task processing etc. All of those work belong to the Search/Data Sciences team, a small team within Storefront. So unless you get hired into Data Sciences (Python, machine learning, distributed systems) or the Mobile Team (JS MVC frameworks, Objective-C), I'd stay away as rest of Storefront is plain procedural PHP from 2004. They have a very strict code review process where you have to get your code approved by a reviewer, sometimes multiple if it involves say, both PHP and Javascript. In practice, this means more refactoring of your code and tracking down people and going back and forth as that process can go several rounds. There is no QA engineers nor suitable staging environment to support you and truly test your code in a quasi-production environment, so you are alone responsible for pushing out code and for whatever reason, bugs happened, stuck fighting fires on the day of push aka test-in-production or worse, several days if issues occur intermittently. The project managers in general, foot-soldiers in carrying out marketing and upper-management directives under the tyranny of agile methodology; and aren't vested with enough power to push back or do any true shielding for engineers on their team. You can read more into the actual cultural and management style of the company in the other reviews which I can confirm as well (basically the culture attracts the type of people who enjoy the HBO show Silicon Valley but don't understand the irony behind it and think it's actually cool). But I want to give day-to-day account of the actual coding experience at Wayfair which is extremely frustrating. I'd advise job candidates to consider how much they'd like to work in a procedural PHP or exclusively with MS-SQL stored procedures.